2019-2020学年惠州市华罗庚中学高三英语上学期期中试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年惠州市华罗庚中学高三英语上学期期中试题及答案解
析
第一部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
A
Theatre reflects the values of the civilization out of which it grows. The following are the types of theatre performances an ancient Roman might have witnessed then.
Fescennine Verse
Fescennine Verse was a pioneer of Roman comedy. Ironic and improvisational（即兴的）, it was used mainly at festivals or weddings, and as invective. With early native Italian funny dialogues in Latin verse, it was thought to have combined with a tradition of performances by masked dancers and musicians from Etruria.
Fabula Atellana
Fabula Atellana relied on common characters, masks, direct humor, and simple plots. They were performed by actors improvising. Fabula Atellana came from the Oscan city of Atella. There were 4 main types of characters: the braggart, the greedy blockhead, the clever hunchback and the stupid old man, like modern Punch and Judy shows.
Fabula Togata
Named for the clothing symbolic of the Roman people Fabula Togata had various subtypes. One was the Fabula Tabernaria, named for the tavern（酒馆）where the comedy’s preferred characters, lowlifes, might be found. One describing more middle-class types, and continuing the Roman clothing theme, was the Fabula Trabeata.
Fabula Praetexta
Fabula Praetexta is the name for Roman tragedies on Roman themes, Roman history or current politics. Fabula Praetexta was less popular than tragedies on Greek themes. During the Golden Age of drama in the Middle Republic, there were four great Roman writers of tragedy, Naevius, Ennius, Pacuvius, and Accius. Of their surviving tragedies, 90 titles remain.
All the performances above began as a translation of Greek forms, even to the extent of their being performed in Greek costume.
1.Where might an ancient Roman witness Fescennine Verse?
A.At a party.
B.At a funeral.
C.At a wedding.
D.At a concert.
2.Which type of performance describes the middle-class life?
A.Fabula Atellana.
B.Fabula Tabernaria.
C.Fabula Trabeata.
D.Fabula Praetexta.
3.What do the listed types of performances have in common?
A.They copy Latin dramas.
B.They take on Greek forms.
C.They reflect Roman themes.
D.They refer to Italian stories.
B
We are in lack of enough sleep, according to Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. And thishas great consequences on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she ly declares, is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In her bestseller Thrive, Arianna wrote about our need to redefine success through wellbeing, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Her discussion of the importance of sleep as a gateway to this more fulfilling way of living struck such a powerful chord (弦) that she realized the mystery and transformative power of sleep called for a fuller investigation (调查).
The result is a scientifically sweeping and personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation (剥夺), and the new golden age of sleep science that is showing the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health — from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna shows how our cultural removal of sleep as time wasted damages our health and our decision-making and our work lives and shortens our personal lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She decides the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways of our addiction to technology disturb our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep.
In today’s fast-paced, always-connected and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
4. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The importance of sleep.
B. The necessity of improving sleep.
C. The way to improve our sleep.
D. The effect of sleep on health.
5. What can be inferred about Arianna’s attitude to success?
A. She thinks good sleep is more important.
B. She doesn’t think much of becoming successful.
C. She thinks it wrong to sacrifice health to success.
D. She is concerned about the nature of success.
6. What can be said about Arianna’s investigation?
A. It is really of great value.
B. It is scientific and historical.
C. It costs Arianna’s sleep in practice.
D. It covers all necessary aspects scientifically,
7. What influence does TheSleep Revolution have on society?
A. It helps to slow down the pace of modern life.
B. It warns people against taking sleeping pills.
C. It warns the harm of inadequate sleep of people.
D. It helps to stress the value of sleep to success.
C
Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most complex learning system-the mind of a baby. Babies might seem like no match for artificial intelligence (AI). They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at video games. Then again, babies can do things beyond the reach of any AI. By just a few months old, they’ve begun to grasp the foundations of language, such as grammar. They’ve started to understand how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Yet even experts like Spelke don’t understand precisely how babies or adults learn. Consider one of the most impressive examples of AI, Alpha Zero, a programme that plays board games with superhuman skill. After playing thousands of games against itself at a super speed, and learning from winning positions, Alpha Zero independently discovered several famous chess strategies and even invented new ones. It certainly seems like a machineeclipsinghuman cognitive abilities. But Alpha Zero needs to play millions more games than a person during practice to learn a game. Most importantly, it cannot take what it has learned from the game and apply it to another area.
To some AI experts, that calls for a new approach. In a November research paper, Francois Chollet, a well-known AI engineer, argued that it’s misguided to measure machine intelligence just according to its skills at specific tasks. “Humans don’t start out with skills; they start out with a broad ability to acquire new skills,” he says. “What a strong human chess player is demonstrating is not only the ability to play chess, but the potential to fulfill any task of a similar difficulty.”
8. Compared to an advanced AI programme, a baby might be better at ________.
A playing games B. identifying locations C. labeling pictures D. making adjustments
9. What does the underlined word “eclipsing” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Imitating.
B. Beating.
C. Limiting.
D. Promoting.
10. According to the text, Francois Chollet may agree that ________.
A. AI is good at completing certain assignments.
B. AI is likely to gain abilities with less training.
C. AI lacks the ability of acquiring specific skills.
D. AI performs better than humans in cognitive ability.
11. Whichwould be the best title for this passage?
A. What is exactly intelligence?
B. Why is modern AI advanced?
C. Where is human intelligence going?
D. How do humans face the challenge of AI?
D
Scientists say baby sharks are at risk of being born smaller and without the energy they need to survive because of warming oceans from climate change.
Scientists studied epaulette sharks, which live off Australia and New Guinea. They found that warmer conditions sped up the sharks’ growing process. That meant the sharks were born earlier and very tired. The findings could be used in the study of other sharks, including those that give birth to live young.
The scientists studied 27 sharks. Some were raised in average summer water temperatures, about 27 degrees Celsius. Others were raised in higher temperatures around 29 degrees Celsius and 31 degrees Celsius. They found that the sharks raised in the warmest temperatures weighed much less than those raised in average temperatures. They also showed reduced energy levels.
Epaulette sharks can grow to a length of about one meter. Their name comes from large spots on their bodies that look like decorations on some military clothing.
One study this year found that worldwide numbers of oceanie sharks and rays dropped more than 70 percent between 1970 and 2018. Overfishing is a main concern, while climate change and pollution also threaten shark.
Carolyn Wheeler is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Australia. She was the lead author of the epaulette shark study. She said that while all the sharks survived, those raised in warmer temperatures were not strong enough to survive for long in the wild.
She added that if the sharks are born smaller than usual “they are probably going to have to start looking for food sooner—and they’re going to have less time to adjust to their surroundings.” The study should serve as a warning to ocean governing agencies that careful management is needed to prevent the loss of more sharks.
12. In what aspect do the warmer conditions affect the baby sharks?
A. Their food.
B. Their body weight.
C. Their living habits.
D. Their moving route.
13. How did the scientists carry out their study?
A. By studying former data.
B. By tracking sharks in the wild.
C. By collecting information about climate change.
D. By comparing sharks in waters of different temperatures
14. What does paragraph 5 mainly talk about?
A. The origin of sharks’ names.
B. The sharks’ appearance.
C. The threats to sharks’ survival.
D. The sharks’ living environment.
15. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Scientists Raise Sharks to Deal with Problems
B. Global Warming Has Reduced Shark Populations
C. Baby Sharks Struggle to Survive in Warming Oceans
D. Scientists Are Struggling to Save Sharks from Extinction
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项Diets aren’t the way to go when it comes to losing weight. Mostdieters gain back any lost weight when they go back to their old eating habits.____16____Weight loss is most likely to be successful when people change their habits. Here are some ways to make that happen:
•Exercise. Regular physical activity burns calories and builds muscle — both of which help you look and feel good and keep weight off. Walking the family dog, cycling to school, and doing other things can all make a difference. If you want to burn more calories, increase the intensity of your workout and add some strength exercises to build muscle.___17___
•____18____People who spend a lot of time watching TV, playing video games, and using computers are more likely to be overweight. Set reasonable limits on the amount of such time you spend.
•Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Fruits and vegetables are about more than just vitamins and minerals.____19____This means they fill you up. And when you fill up on fruits and veggies, you’re less likely to overeat.
•Don’t skip breakfast. Breakfast starts your metabolism(新陈代谢), burning calories from the beginning of the day and giving you energy to do more during the day. People who skip breakfast often feel so hungry that they eat more later on.____20____In fact, people who skip breakfast tend to have higher BMIs(体重质量指数) than people who eat breakfast.
A. Set realistic goals.
B. Reduce screen time.
C. They’re also rich in fiber(食物纤维).
D. So what’s the best way to drop extra weight?
E. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn.
F. Thus they get more calories than they would have if they ate breakfast.
G. So choose smaller portions and go for water or low-fat milk instead of soda.
第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项Prickles, a bare-faced merino sheep (麦兰奴种绵羊) that ran away from a Tasmanian farm during the 2013 bush-fires, recently returned home.
According to farmer Alice Gray, Prickles was___21___a lamb when she ran away, seven years ago. The bush fires destroyed the area and the young sheep got___22___in a 200-acre bush block, ___23___to return after they rebuilt about 50km of fencing. They had___24___her a few times, and even recorded her___25___with cameras installed to monitor deer around. So they knew she was___26___, but they didn't expect her return. They were___27___.
Ms. Gray told ABC. net. au that she and the family were___28___her son's sixth birthday when they caught
a___29___of the runaway sheep. They had decided to barbecue at the back of their farm, and that's when they_____30_____this “big, white, furry thing” on the other side of the dam. The birthday party_____31_____turned into a sheep chase.
At one point Mr. Gray disappeared, only to call her later, saying that he had_____32_____to catch Prickles and leap on the_____33_____of her, pressing her down. He needed some help_____34_____the sheep didn't seem_____35_____to follow him home. Ms. Gray and the kids found him, and managed to_____36_____the sheep in the back of a truck.
“She's a great big furry ball of wool,” Alice Gray_____37_____Prickles, “She looks very healthy and she's very_____38_____now with some other little friends.”
The Grays are currently holding a_____39_____to guess the weight of Prickles' wool to_____40_____money online for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (难民).
21. A. already B. only C. even D. always
22. A. stuck B. broken C. attracted D. confused
23. A. easy B. impatient C. unable D. glad
24. A. trapped B. released C. caught D. spotted
25. A. activities B. manners C. efforts D. tricks
26. A. aware B. alive C. alike D. afraid
27. A. wrong B. lucky C. sure D. curious
28. A. reporting B. appreciating C. observing D. scheduling
29. A. chance B. hold C. figure D. glimpse
30. A. lost B. found C. left D. shot
31. A. generally B. certainly C. suddenly D. commonly
32. A. regretted B. pretended C. continued D. managed
33. A. chest B. wool C. back D. forehead
34. A. until B. though C. while D. because
35. A. painful B. eager C. angry D. nervous
36. A. load B. train C. judge D. attract
37. A. chatted with B. prayed for C. joked about D. explained to
38. A. moved B. smart C. tired D. happy
39. A. ceremony B. competition C. concert D. collection
40. A. raise B. 1end C. print D. spend
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
Scientists found a prehistoric ancestor of an arrow worm (箭虫)among a group of fossils (化石)at two national parks in Canada. The fossils___41.___(find) in what is now British Columbia, but was once an ocean.
The sea worm was 10 centimeters long and had 50 spines (刺)on___42.___(it) head. The spines could close suddenly___43.___(catch) smaller sea creatures.
The scientists say it lived 500 million years ago and is very different___44.___anything alive now. Derek Briggs is a scientist from Yale University. He led___45.___research. He said the creature___46.___(be) larger than today's similar worms. The arrow worms of today have teeth instead of spines.
Briggs said the worm was___47.___(probable) a good hunter because it had so many spines. The scientists said it is difficult to find evidence of these prehistoric worms because their bodies decayed (腐烂)so quickly. But this___48.___(discover) was in such good shape, so they were able to make a good guess about how the worm looked.
Researchers were able to make a___49.___(detail) drawing of how they think the worm moved in the ocean. Doug Erwin works for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. He was not involved in the research. He said the breakthrough will help scientists___50.___(well) understand the worms and other life from this ancient period than before.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last year, I took a trip to Chengdu with a tour group.
In the way, we stopped at a shopping center build several years ago. It was not long after I felt bored, so I decided to go out for a walk. I was going down a street when I caught sight of an old man sitting on the sidewalk. Dressing in rags, he was such dirty that I could smell him from several feet away. Although I didn't raise his head,
but I could see the sadness in his eyes. I bend down and handed some of my money to him. Moved my behaviour, he kept saying “thank you”.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.主题：How to take exercise properly and safely
定期锻炼对身心健康有奇效，有助于提高身体的平衡能力和灵活性。

但方法不当也会带来伤害，以下是确保运动安全又有乐趣的诀窍：
1.在进行具体的运动前，最好征询医生的建议，并做好准备活动。

2.准备适合的服装和装备。

3.运动要适量，要补充水分。

字数：100左右。

How to take exercise properly and safely
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参考答案
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. D
6. D
7. C
8. D 9. B 10. A 11. A
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. C
16. D 17. E 18. B 19. C 20. F
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. C 32.
D 33. C 34. D 35. B 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. A
41. were found
42. its 43. to catch
44. from 45. a
46. was 47. probably
48. discovery
49. detailed
50. better
51.(1). In → On
(2). build → built
(3). after → before
(4). a → an
(5). Dressing → Dressed
(6). such → so
(7). I → he
(8). 去掉I前面的but
(9). bend → bent
(10). Moved后加by 52.略。